The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-10-20
THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
THE INTEREST IN THE VIRGINI
HABEAS CORPUS CASE.
Lively i imes Predicted in the Civil Ser
vice COmmissiOn--The National Dem
Ocratic Convention, Etc.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRONICLE

OSA"tS SoHSCntlOHs EItCs
Especial Cor STATE CHRoNICLEl
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Oct. 16, 1SS7.-The
Virginia habeas corpus cases now before
the Supreme Court excite great deal of
interest. Last Monday morning Col Cor
don asked the Supreme Court to issue
Writs of habeas corpus in favor of Attor-
ney-General Ayres and County Attorney
Scott. The writs were issued the next
morning, and the Marshal of the Supreme
Court went went down to Richmond to
take the gentlemen who had been put in
Jail by order of Judge Bond into custody.
Sunday these prisoners spent the day in
Washington, in charge of Thomas w.
Scott, Marshal for the Richmond District.
Messrs. Ayers, Scott and McCabc have re-
tained as counsel the Hon. John Randolph
Tucker, Messrs. Gordon and Meredith,
and it is thought the Hon. Roscoe Conk-
ling. The Telephone cases in which a great
deal of money is involved, will not be ar
gued before the Supreme Court until No
vember. One of the most interesting ca
ses-that of the condemned anarchists
will be presented to the Supreme Court
the latter part of this week, by the Hons.
Roger Atkinson Pryor and John Randolph
Tucker. The prisoners will no doubt be
bailed promptly and the argument of their
full bench. 1t is generally understood that
the President will fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Judge Woods, soon after
his return to this city. Another reason
for delay is, the case involves some knotty
Constitutional questions, and as both the
Hon. John Randolph Tucker and the Hon.
Roscoe Conkling have national regulations
as constitutional lawyers, to sustain them
they will want considerable time in which
to prepare their arguments. Returning to
the case Of the condemned Anarchists,
am told that both Roger Pryor and John
Randolph Tucker take very hopeful view
of it. But learn from good authority
that the majorlty of the Judges on the
Supreme Court Bench do not think the
case comes under the jurisdiction of the
should persist In this opinion, the con-
demned Anarchists will suffer the extreme
penalty of the law.
Commissioner Oberly continues to be
soundly abused for his two recent letters
concerning the llegality of State Demo
cratic associations in Washington, and of
a member of such an association serving
on Board of Civil Service Examiners. The
Virginia association has held several meet
ings and a member of the Association at
their last meeting said he had been study
ing the Civil Service law for some time
He declared that Mr.. Oberlys action was
illegal, and a resolution to arraign Mr..
Oberly before the Commission in bano
was heartily applauded and unanimously
adopted. Oberly gets very little sympathy
from the Democratic organizations in this
city. l have heard of his receiving but
one endorsement, and that was sent by
the New York Civil Service Reform Asso-
citation. Judge Edgerton, who lis coll
stantly at loggerheads with Oberly, has
just returned to the city somewhat uneX-
pected. Commissioner Lyman, the Re-
publican member, who is the brainiest and
the shrewdest of the trio, is still absent on
business for the Commission. If all the
threats made are carried out there will be
some lively times at the Office of the Com
mission, when he returns.
4 great deal of interest is being mani
fssted here in the way in which European
commercial centres are taking the South
American trade away from the United
States. During the last session of Con-
gress there was bill before the House the
purport of which which was to encourage
the establishment of line of steamships
between New York and perhaps New Or
leans and Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Colum-
bia, Chill, and other such desirable por-
tions of South America. l am told by a
gentleman who is largely interested in the
proposed steamship line that the de
feat of the bill in the American Con
gress was hailed with demonstrations of
Joy in various European ports. Your read
ers have an idea of what the Brazilian
trade is worth.
A friend tells me that several of the
| South American States are forging ahead
with wonderful rapidity. In Buenos Ayres
there is net wofk of railroads and two
banks handsomer than any in New York
$35, 900, 900. New Orleans is admirably
situated, geographically, to get large
share of this trade. l am told a great
drawback to our commercial interests in
these rapidly developing South American
| States is that a great many of our com
mercial agents go there without being able
| to speak or understand one word of Span
ish-the language universally spoken.
Dr. Walling has just returned from al
| extended tour through Europe, where hs
visited all the great public and private
galleries and the studios of the eminen
artists in the interest Of the Corcoran AR
Gallery, III this city. He has made ar
rGlScmGQtS 10 Uedl OlreCG Will IL uumDe
of the European artists instead of through
dealers, who get the lions share of the
money. He had purchased, among othe
pictures, painting which represents +;
scene in the palace of Pope Julius the Sec
ond, when he exposes the newly discovered
statue of the Apollo Belvidere to the ad
miring gaze of Raphael, Michael Angelo
Brammance and others. The picture il
| the work of Carl Becker, the president o
the Royal Academy of Berlin. 1t was con
sidered the gem of the recent Berlin Ex
position. DR.. Walling brought testimoni
ais of regard from the greatest of thes
artists to the Ho1. W. W. Corcoran, tn
most muniticent benefactor of art in Amer
lea.
Senator NJ W. Ransom is in the city
The Hon: George Bancroft is very muc
depressed on account of the death of hi
sister, Mrs. Farman, who died at sea o.
her way to this country to make her flu
ture home with him. His granddaughte
will soon be married to French noble
man. It is understood that Col. W.
Blackwell, the president of the bank a
Durham, will soon become resident O
this city, where he will open real estat
Office. There are few safer investment
than real estate in the city of Washington
Besides being absolutely safe, it general
pays an interest of from to 10 per Ger
on the investment. With the large amour
| of canita1 Colonel Blackwell can command